Using Quarkxpress 4 - Softcover

Anton, Kelly Kordes; Grey, David; Barnhart, Rochelle; Gray, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789716593 ISBN 13: 9780789716590

Publisher: Que Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Using QuarkXPress 4 is a task-based reference--a book readers will turn to for ways to solve problems, troubleshoot their projects. By presenting material in a results-oriented format and with only the essential information, it enables readers to find the answer they need and return to work quickly. The book will cover:- Setting Up Shop.- Laying Out Pages.- Illustrating with Boxes & Lines.- Building Documents.- Editing Text.- Typography.- Publishing Long Documents.- Images.- Enhancing Type with Graphics.- Color and Trapping .- Printing & Multimedia Output.

• QuarkXPress 4.0 has 75 new features, and is the first major upgrade in 7 years. This will have more than half a million upgrades in the first year
• Written by an expert author team, including a Quark documentation developer and graphic designers with more than 50 years of design and training experience among them
• Using Quark 4's results-oriented and task-organized modular format puts answers at readers' fingertips so they can get what they need and go back to work

About this title

Review

This book, which covers both Windows and Macintosh versions of QuarkXPress, begins with an introduction to the interface, a review of new features in version 4, and help in setting defaults and preferences and managing QuarkXPress files. Part 2, "Page Layout," teaches you how to draw boxes and lines, apply frames and styles, position items on a page, use Libraries and the Document Layout Palette, and more. Part 3 teaches you how to add and format text, helps you import text files, use an Automatic Text Box, use columns and templates, choose and implement typographic specifications, and use the Kern/Track editor. In Part 4, "Adding Graphics," you create illustrations by using the Bezier tool and applying techniques such as merging and splitting items, tiling, and flipping. Next, you add images by importing them into Picture Boxes and positioning, resizing, and cropping them. You also learn how to color images, change image contrast, create halftone screens, work with clipping paths and alpha channels, create text wraps, place text along a path, work with text-shaped objects, specify paragraph rules, and use initial caps. Part 5, "Color and Output," teaches you how to create and apply color, match and manage color, work with trapping, print documents, prepare documents for a service bureau, and output your work to QuarkImmedia, HTML, and PDF formats. The last part explains advanced features, such as XTensions, XPress Tags, book files, indexes, and lists. There's also a glossary of desktop-publishing and design terms. --Kathleen Caster

Edition details

• Publisher: Que Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0789716593
• ISBN 13: 9780789716590
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 667